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11:25 AM ET, July 2, 2007

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John Solomon / Washington Post:
Obama Takes Lead In Money Raised  —  Pressure on Clinton Is Expected to Grow  —  Sen. Barack Obama raised $31 million for his presidential primary campaign over the past three months, surging past Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton's fundraising machine by nearly $10 million for the quarter …
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Kristin Jensen / Bloomberg:
Obama Taps Internet, Small Donors to Top Clinton's Fundraising  —  Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama is dominating presidential fundraising, raising the most money and bringing in far more contributors than rivals such as Hillary Clinton, who leads in national polls.
Discussion: The Moderate Voice and MSNBC
Lynn Sweet / Chicago Sun Times:
Obama leads — in cash
Ben Smith / The Politico:   Primary money  —  The money that counts in a Democratic primary …
Daily Mail:
Two doctors held over bomb attacks  —  While police swoop on motorway to arrest woman in a veil  —  Two doctors were among five people being held as terror suspects last night after the bomb plots in London and Glasgow.  —  One was one of two men who tried to drive a blazing Jeep packed with petrol …
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New York Times:
Britain Arrests Two More in Car Bomb Plot
Discussion: The Atlantic Online
Telegraph:
Britain's terror crackdown
Discussion: Tim Worstall
Sky News:
Controlled Explosion At Glasgow Hospital
Discussion: Guardian and Hot Air
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John O'Callaghan / Reuters:
U.S. plays down report of imminent al Qaeda attack
James Joyner / Outside The Beltway:   Al Qaeda Terror 'Spectacular' This Summer
Associated Press:   GI's illegal immigrant wife gets amnesty
Michael R. Gordon / New York Times:
U.S. Ties Iranians to Iraq Attack That Killed G.I.'s  —  Iranian operatives helped plan a January raid in Karbala in which five American soldiers were killed, an American military spokesman in Iraq said today.  —  Brig. Gen. Kevin J. Bergner, the military spokesman, also said that Iran's …
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Glenn Greenwald / Salon:
Michael Gordon trains his stenographer weapons on Iran  —  The Bush administration's most reliable pro-surge "reporter," Michael Gordon of The New York Times, this morning filed an article — headlined: "U.S. Ties Iranians to Iraq Attack That Killed G.I.'s" — that might be the most war-fueling article yet with regard to Iran.
Discussion: TalkLeft
Michael Ware / CNN:
Officials: Hezbollah agent helped plan Iraq raid
Discussion: Defense Tech
Peter Baker / Washington Post:
A President Besieged and Isolated, Yet at Ease  —  Bush, Grasping for Answers and Fixated on Iraq, Remains Resolute  —  At the nadir of his presidency, George W. Bush is looking for answers.  One at a time or in small groups, he summons leading authors, historians, philosophers and theologians …
Sharon Waxman / New York Times:
Al Gore's Top-Secret Access for the Final 'Sopranos' Episode  —  Who knew that tree-hugging ex-politicians loved "The Sopranos"?  It turns out that Al Gore is a die-hard fan, but when the series finale loomed in early June, he and his wife, Tipper, had to be on a plane for an appearance in Istanbul.
Discussion: Think Progress and PrawfsBlawg
Howard Kurtz / Washington Post:
Just Getting Warmed Up  —  MSNBC's 'Morning Joe' Scarborough, Undiluted in the A.M.  —  SECAUCUS, N.J. — At a horseshoe-shaped desk in an aircraft hangar of a studio, Joe Scarborough jokes with his sidekicks during the commercial breaks, and when the red light comes on, keeps chatting without so much as a "welcome back."
Aaron Klein / WorldNetDaily:
More London bombings on way, warns Muslim  —  UK Islamist leader claims Brits ready to carry out 'many attacks'  —  JERUSALEM - The thwarted car bombings in London last week and the terror attack this weekend against Scotland's busiest airport were "completely justified" …
Discussion: Gateway Pundit
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Don Kaplan / New York Post:
TALKING UP IMUS  —  RADIO SIGNALS OF A WFAN COMEBACK  —  Imus may be hitting the FAN again.  —  The radio rumor mill has turned the volume way up on reports that the return of Don Imus to WFAN is just around the corner.  —  And WFAN itself is fueling the reports.
Discussion: On Deadline and Cliff Schecter
Houston Chronicle:
Spring teen who survived pipe attack dies after leap from cruise ship  —  A Spring teen who survived a brutal beating with a pipe last year jumped to his death from a Cozumel-bound cruise ship on Sunday.  —  Carnival Cruise Lines officials would not confirm his identity, but Rick Dovalina …
Ana Marie Cox / TIME: Swampland:
Mitt Romney Loves His "Family Pets"  —  I'd be happy to make this my last word on the subject, but Romney can't seem to shut up about it: … You have fun with those "family pets," Mitt.  We're moving on...  Also, full disclosure:  —  UPDATE: Okay, we're not moving on, clearly.
Discussion: WHOTV
Matt Schudel / Washington Post:
Rear Adm. Eugene B. Fluckey; Commanded Submarine Attacks on Japanese Shipping  —  Rear Adm. Eugene B. Fluckey, one of the greatest naval heroes of World War II who was awarded the Medal of Honor and four Navy Crosses for his daring submarine attacks on Japanese shipping, died June 28 at Anne Arundel Medical Center.
Discussion: QandO and Outside The Beltway
Austan Goolsbee / Slate:
Michael Moore and the Beige Bomber  —  HE'S GOT THE INDICTMENT OF HEALTH CARE RIGHT, BUT NOT THE FIX.  —  Michael Moore's shtick cracks me up.  As entertainment, most of his movies are great fun.  In Sicko, though, he goes beyond his usual ranting.  After spending the first half …
Discussion: Ezra Klein and EconLog
David S. Broder / Washington Post:
A Victory For Free Speech  —  If you believe most of the newspaper editorials and the outraged complaints from self-styled reform groups last week, the Supreme Court opened a huge "loophole" in campaign finance law that will enable corporations and unions to pollute the political process with their ads.
Discussion: Betsy's Page and Don Surber
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Edward Lazarus / Washington Post:
Under John Roberts, Court Re-Rights Itself
Discussion: No Left Turns and Hullabaloo
 
 
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Salam Faraj / Agence France Presse:
Iraqi civilian deaths sharply lower in June
Susan Kuczka / Chicago Tribune:
Wife, husband might be rivals in U.S. House race
Michael Hirsh / Washington Post:
Iran Has a Message. Are We Listening?
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Washington Post:
In Iraq, a Private Realm Of Intelligence-Gathering
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